History of the United States II / Unit 10 USH2 1391 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Charles Curtis
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The idea
Hoover's vice president, Charles Curtis of the Kaw nation, became the first Native American to hold so high an office.
In practice
Federal spending on Native schools and health care doubling under Hoover.
Where people slip
Hoover's commissioner, Charles Rhoads, pursued self-sufficiency and assimilation, the aim of unit two's Dawes Act. Unit eleven reverses both.
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